New to the Net - Amarillo Library helpers

The Amarillo Public Library is giving patrons tools to use online to make the library even more useful with reminders on due dates and reference answers delivered to their computers or smart phones.

Library ELF gives patrons a reminder the materials they have checked out of the library are almost due or when materials on hold for them are available to check out. Subscribers can set alarm preferences on due dates to go off one or more days before, according to a news release.

Fewer fines and materials ready for someone else, like you, to check out are advantages of the program.

Got a question? Now you can text the reference staff instead of getting sometimes risky answers from sites like Wikipedia. Text askamapl to 66746 and then save 66746 in your smart phone under the name askamapl. After that setup, patrons can send their questions to that number and await a reply from the staff.